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Mason County.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Charles C. Miller, Farmer, Financial Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1242
Overview

Financial records of a Mason County farmer. Includes detailed accounts of expenditures for commodities, labor, and taxes.

Dates: 1831-1847

Charles H. Freeman, (1854-1919), Engineer, Letter Book

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1278
Overview

Engineer and pioneer of the Griffithsville oil fields in Lincoln County, West Virginia. Freeman and William H. Yawkey were active in the development of oil and coal lands along the Guyandotte River and in Mason County, West Virginia. Correspondence concerns the Big Creek Development Co., Yawkey and Freeman Co., Ltd., Yawkey and Freeman Drilling Co., and Pond Creek Coal Co.

Dates: 1908-1911

Donald E. Smith, Collector, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1944
Overview

Correspondence, account books, and tax reports of the Liverpool Salt and Coal Company, American Calcium Chloride Works, Liverpool Salt Company, Jackson Coal and Mining Company, and Jackson Valley Bell Farm of Hartford in Mason County, West Virginia. In addition, there are account books for the G.Y. Roots and Company of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dates: 1884-1956

Hope Manufacturing and Coal Company Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1535
Overview

Daybooks and ledgers of a company store operated by the Hope Manufacturing and Coal Company, an early producer of coal and salt in the Mason County, West Virginia, area.

Dates: 1876-1906

James M. Crump, Compiler, The Vanbibber Family in Mason County

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1280
Overview

The Vanbibber Family in Mason County, by James M. Crump, recounts the early history of Mason County, ca. 1774-1810.

Dates: ca. 1950

Mason County Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0663
Scope and Contents

Record book of certificates of appraisement of estrays, including livestock, and lumber, boats and other articles adrift on the Ohio River; also judgements rendered for fines by several Justices and receipts of various county officials for copies of the Code of W.Va., Acts of the Legislature and dockets.

Dates: 1853-1859; 1861-1867; 1870-1876

Mason County Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0914
Scope and Contents Court case papers, 1786-1908, and record books, 1804-1903. Collection also contains poor claims, county claims, delinquent road lists, county road and bridge petitions, Justice’s reports, election certificates, road claims, birth reports, appraisements and bills of sale, Board of Education reports, abstracts of Judgements, oaths of county and district officer, bond records, administrator accounts, and surveyor appointments and road cases. A chronological index to the case papers is...
Dates: 1786-1908

Mason County Medical Doctors Index

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3067
Overview A list of Mason County medical practitioners alphabetically arranged, and including life span dates, parents' names, spouses' name, dates of practice, region of practice, and titles of books where more information can be found. Mention is made of early frontier doctors, James Craik and William Fleming. Craik was the doctor accompanying George Washington's surveying party to Pt. Pleasant, and Fleming was the attending physician to the wounded at the Battle of Pt. Pleasant. Material covers the...
Dates: undated

Point Pleasant History, Typed Document

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2310
Overview

This history was serialized and published in the Point Pleasant STATE GAZETTE from September 1910 to February 1911. Subjects covered include: early homes, buildings, businesses, church history, economic development, and family history.

Dates: September 1910-February 1911

Sebastian Rehm, Physician, Account Book and Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0902
Overview

A physician's account book with index, 1869-1887, for a practice in Mason County, West Virginia, and Pomeroy, Ohio; and a folder of loose invoices for household accounts, building supplies, groceries, harness and leather goods, and clothes.

Dates: ca. 1869-1890